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Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans
Julie Leininger Pycior
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Traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino civil rights leaders. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BGH; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino civil rights leaders.
Pycior notes that the Mexican immigrant associations ... Read more
The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino civil rights leaders.
Pycior notes that the Mexican immigrant associations ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623491284
SKU
V9781623491284
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About Julie Leininger Pycior
JULIE LEININGER PYCIOR, Professor of History at Manhattan College, served as a historical adviser to public television and is a contributor to huffingtonpost.com. Her previous book, LBJ and Mexican Americans, won the T. R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission.
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